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Jackie Low is a final year student completing her optometry externship at the University of Auckland.
Claire and Sally will be supervising Jackie and reviewing her findings. We invite you to make an appointment with Jackie.
Please allow an hour and note the examination fee will be reduced to $75. We are delighted to be able to mentor and support final year students here at McDonald Adams Optometrists.
Optometrist Vlad Zorzoliu has joined us. Vlad completed his Optometry studies at the University of Auckland and has been working at Central Otago Optical in Alexandra.
Vlad loves the way as an optometrist you can help people see better; in his words ‘be an advocate for eye health’.
Vlad is experienced in contact lens fitting including speciality and hard lenses. He has a natural rapport with children, drawing on skills gained through coaching tennis.
We are delighted to have Vlad on our team, particularly as our appointment book has been very busy! Another optometrist will mean less wait time for a consultation.
Vlad, Sally and Claire are available for online bookings.
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As part of every eye check we examine your eyes with a microscope - have you ever wondered what we can see? Here is the big reveal!
A lot of the tissue in the eye is transparent - so that light can pass through to get to the retina. Let’s start at the front - the cornea. We often see evidence of previous infections or injuries. In the fluid filled chamber inside the front of the eye our microscope allows us to see cells floating. Checking the lens we look for early signs of cataract. Then we see the vitreous gel, where we often find the ‘floaters’ which people describe for us. Finally the retina comes into focus.
The retina is red - sometimes seen as a red eye in photos taken using a flash. We have a check list as we examine the blood vessels, the optic nerve and the macula.
Sometimes we want to go deeper - to ‘look’ at the layers of the retina in more detail. This is when we use OCT scanning technology. While the information this provides is quite amazing, it does not quite match to viewing down the microscope - seeing individual red blood cells tumbling along the capillaries at the front of the eye will always be special for me.
We have a great range of I Need You reading glasses. These are perfect if you don’t need individualized prescription glasses, or to have as a spare pair. I Need You reading glasses are designed by a German Optician who has an eye for new trends. These readers are manufactured according to stringent European standard (DIN EN 14163) for the exacting German customer.
There are great choices; find your favourite style and update your wardrobe with new colours. I Need You glasses are a fashion statement for people who want a little more pizzazz with their hobby glasses.
Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS) is the rather strange phenomenon of complex visual hallucinations in people with vision loss with no neurological or psychiatric problem. These experiences can be alarming for patients and their families - ‘Mum is seeing monkeys in trees’ will get our attention.
Read moreThe discovery of a crucial trigger for dry macular degeneration (AMD) – an enzyme called cGAS – could lead to the development of a drug to prevent disease progression.
This discovery, at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, was a surprise. Drs. Jayakrishna Ambati and Nagaraj Kerur had determined that cGAS plays an important role in the body's immune response to infections detecting foreign DNA, but its role in dry AMD was unexpected.
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